Lynk Completes Pre-Commercial Trials for 5th Satellite ahead of Commercial Launch

February 08, 2022 at 06:00 AM EST

New milestones achieved in the company’s planned 2022 deployment of global cell-towers-in-space service
Lynk publishes image of new satellite design

Lynk Global, Inc. (Lynk), the world’s leading satellite-direct-to-phone telecoms company, today announced the successful completion of pre-commercial tests for its fifth satellite. The completion of this technical milestone advances torward Lynk’s planned deployment of its global ‘cell-towers-in-space’ service later this year.

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The team that designed and built Lynk’s 5th satellite. This unique “pizza box” satellite design is optimized for satellite-direct-to-phone, mass production, and future scalability. www.lynk.world (Photo: Business Wire)

To date, Lynk’s fifth satellite has connected to thousands of unique devices including, smartphones and tablets, IoT devices, cars, trucks, and even tractors. It has done so across five different countries, (Bahamas, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States), spanning three continents, enabling direct two-way connectivity between devices and Lynk’s satellites. During testing, Lynk’s satellite in orbit connected to mobile phones from eight of the top ten mobile network operators in the world.

Lynk’s latest technical development builds on the company’s mission to connect everyone, everywhere, and will underpin Lynk’s future commercial service. Indeed, the company has already signed contracts with seven mobile network operators for its commercial service, with more to be announced in the coming year.

Lynk’s CEO and Co-Founder Charles Miller, who is set to speak at the SmallSat Symposium (8-10 February) in Silicon Valley, says, “The mobile phone is the most important piece of technology in the lives of billions of people. It has revolutionized the way we communicate and transformed economies and societies around the world. Yet, existing terrestrial-based towers do not, and will never, provide coverage for vast regions of our planet. At Lynk, we believe that every single person should be able to access affordable, reliable mobile connectivity everywhere. We’re excited to see the completion of pre-commercial tests for our fifth satellite as we move one step closer to launching commercial services later this year.”

As part of this announcement, Lynk is releasing a map illustrating some of the “world firsts” accomplished during testing, and an image of its new satellite design, optimized for “satellite direct to phone” capabilities.

Charles Miller will be speaking on the ‘The State of Smallsat Constellations: Prospects for Current and Planned Systems” panel at the SmallSat Symposium in Silicon Valley at 9:30am PT, on 8 February. Miller will be releasing additional details on Lynk’s accomplishments during his panel at the event. For more information visit: https://2022.smallsatshow.com/

About Lynk

In 2022, Lynk will provide the world’s first commercial satellite direct-to-mobile-phone service, enabling affordable, reliable mobile phone connectivity to everyone, everywhere across the globe. Founded in 2017 by veteran space and telecoms leaders, the Lynk team invented, patented and proved that a satellite could serve as a “cell tower in space” and connect directly to a standard mobile phone on Earth – a technological feat verified by independent third parties. Today, Lynk is the only company in the world to have successfully sent text messages to and from space via unmodified mobile devices. By partnering with Lynk via a simple roaming agreement, a mobile network operator opens the door to untapped markets, gives subscribers peace of mind with ubiquitous connectivity and provides a pathway to economic prosperity for billions of the world’s citizens. For more information, visit www.lynk.world